The internationalists

A hundred years on, the general strike of 1926 remains a mythical event – in the face of relatively low levels of class struggles in recent decades, many today look upon it with the rose-tinted glasses of misplaced nostalgia. Arguably the largest industrial dispute in Britain's history, it lasted only ten days (nine if counting from 4 May) before being called off by the union leadership.

(We publish an article by a Chilean comrade on Kast's rise to the presidency of the republic, a bridge between the Pinochet-led right of the past and contemporary fascist-style populism.) · On 11 March, José Antonio Kast was inaugurated president of Chile. Within hours he had signed six emergency decrees, and whatever illusions remained about the post-dictatorship settlement were disposed of...

The brief but notable Air Canada flight attendant strike, with 99.7 voting in favor, began on August 16th and lasted only 3 days. The flight industry, being a high value, time sensitive and logistically demanding operation, was uniquely vulnerable to pressure from just a portion of its workforce striking.

Workers across the world and in almost all industries are once again feeling the need to struggle against the attacks on our living standards. Unions, which form an important part of our working class history, are the first to offer us a way to channel this struggle collectively. But looking beyond these initial stages of working class struggle, the history of union struggles becomes less...

The US has been the world's foremost superpower roughly since the Second World War, and although its status is being increasingly contested by an ascendent China, its supremacy remains intact for now. As such, ideological debates which divide the American ruling class continue to have wider implications on the rest of the world.